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• Jul 6, 2014

  Former Playboy Bunny Coverts to Islam; Says She Also Considered Christianity

  Felixia Yeap, who was Malaysia's first and only Playboy Bunny until recently, has announced her conversion to Islam, and said she considered Christianity and Buddhism earlier, "but my heart never felt close to God. My heart never felt touched."

• Jul 6, 2014

  NY Times Blasted for Allowing Atheists' Full-Page Anti-Catholic Ad in Response to Hobby Lobby Case

  The New York Times is being criticized for having double standard by allowing a full-page ad by the Freedom from Religion Foundation against the Catholic Church in response to the Hobby Lobby decision, while the newspaper had rejected an "anti-Muslim" ad in 2012.

• Jul 6, 2014

  Baptist Bishop Who Quit After Her Gay Marriage Is Now Pastor of New 'Inclusive' Church

  A Baptist bishop in Michigan, who resigned from her Detroit church after marrying a woman bishop from another church last year, has started a new congregation in Maryland, which is reaching out to the LGBT community across the country.

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  Jul 6, 2014

  Google Bans Porn, Sexually Explicit Ads; Christian Group Hails Enforcement

  A change in policy on AdWords that Google announced in March has now gone into effect, banning promotion of "sexually explicit content" from its advertising network across the search engine and other sites – a decision that has been welcomed by an anti-porn group Morality in Media.

• Jul 5, 2014

  Benny Hinn's Former Church to Be Sold in Foreclosure Auction

  Clint Brown, the pastor of Faith World Center in Florida, televangelist Benny Hinn's former church, is holding worship services at a school with a new name for his church, as its property is set for a multimillion-dollar foreclosure auction.

• Jul 1, 2014

  'Grand Theft Auto' Game Producer to Buy Landmark Church Building in Scotland for $858,000

  A Scottish video game producer, who is behind the popular Grand Theft Auto game, is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a landmark church in Edinburgh for use by the community as a center of arts.

• Jun 30, 2014

  ISIS Terror Group Declares Caliphate in Iraq, Syria; Nails 9 Men to Cross for Rebellion

  An offshoot of al Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS, has declared the territory it has seized in Iraq and Syria a "caliphate," or Islamic state, and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as caliph or leader for Muslims. The group also nailed nine men to a cross in Syria as punishment for rebellion.

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  Jun 30, 2014

  Pope Francis Says Communism Stole 'the Flag of Christianity'

  Pope Francis, who is often branded as a Marxist due to his criticism of abuse of capitalism, said Sunday that communism has stolen ideas from Christianity, at whose center is the Gospel for the poor.

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  Jun 30, 2014

  GOP Expedites Efforts to Seek Evangelical Support for Midterm Elections

  To increase the voter turnout among evangelicals and seek support from conservative believers, the Republican Party has launched a new initiative to mobilize its "biggest, most reliable voting bloc."

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  Jun 30, 2014

  Supreme Court to Decide Hobby Lobby's Birth Control Mandate Case Monday

  The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to decide Monday whether the contraception mandate under the ObamaCare violates the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, as claimed by Hobby Lobby and dozens of other companies, or protects women's right to medical care, as alleged by the Obama administration.